Union Cabinet/ Council of Ministers, India (2019-24)

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Biographical details

Ministers from Rajya, Lok Sabha, 2014/ 19

2014, 2019
Ministers from Rajya, Lok Sabha,
First time MPs who became ministers
From: May 31, 2019: The Times of India

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2014, 2019
Ministers from Rajya, Lok Sabha,
First time MPs who became ministers

Those inducted, and those dropped

2019: Those who were inducted into the Union Cabinet, and those who were dropped
From: May 31, 2019: The Times of India

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2019: Those who were inducted into the Union Cabinet, and those who were dropped

Party, gender, assets, age and ‘house’ of ministers

2019- The party, gender, assets, age and ‘house’ (upper, lower) of ministers
From: May 31, 2019: The Times of India

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2019: The party, gender, assets, age and ‘house’ (upper/ lower) of ministers

The states that are represented in the cabinet

May 31, 2019: The Times of India

20 of 29 states find place in Team Modi, UP gets rewarded with nine berths

Uttar Pradesh, which sent the highest number of 64 MPs from the ruling alliance to the 17th Lok Sabha, on Thursday got the biggest representation in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of ministers. Nine of the 58 ministers are from the state, including the PM who represents Varanasi, followed by eight from Maharashtra and five from Bihar.

Among bigger states, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala could not get any ministerial berth though V Muraleedharan, who represents Maharashtra in Rajya Sabha is Kerala BJP chief.

Twenty of the total 29 states have got one or more ministerial berths. Besides Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the other states that could not get ministerial representation are from the north-east — Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya.

BJP, in fact, could not open its account in Andhra Pradesh this year where 22 of the total 25 parliamentary seats went in favour of YSR Congress while the remaining three went to TDP.

Karnataka has four ministers while Rajasthan, Haryana and Gujarat have three each. Punjab, Jharkhand and West Bengal get two each.

Among the states which will see assembly polls this year, Maharashtra got maximum of eight ministers, Haryana three and Jharkhand two. Former chief minister of Jharkhand Arjun Munda got a Cabinet berth. West Bengal, where BJP did remarkably well picking up 18 seats and is eyeing the 2021 assembly polls, got two ministerial berths.

Four out of nine ministers, including the PM, from Uttar Pradesh are of Cabinet rank — Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, and Mahendra Nath Pandey being the others.

Maharashtra too got four ministers of Cabinet rank — Nitin Gadkari, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goyal and Arvind Ganpat Sawant (MP from south Mumbai). Javadekar and Goyal are Rajya Sabha MPs. Other than Sawant, three of the four were Cabinet ministers during Modi’s first term. Bihar has two Cabinet ministers — Ravi Shankar Prasad and Giriraj Singh — besides Ramvilas Paswan (LJP), who is not an MP. NDA won 39 of the 40 parliamentary seats from the state. While BJP won the highest number of seats (17), its allies JD(U) won 16 and LJP bagged 6. JD(U), however, on Thursday decided not to join the Modi Cabinet due to differences over number of ministerial berths.

Harsh Vardhan, MP from Chandni Chowk in Delhi, is the lone minister from the Capital. Vardhan was the minister of environment and science & technology in the outgoing ministry.

Though he was initially made the health minister, his portfolio was later changed to accommodate J P Nadda. Nadda, however, is not in the ministry this time amid buzz that he might be given the responsibility of the party after induction of party chief Amit Shah in the Cabinet.

Caste composition

May 31, 2019: The Times of India

PM Narendra Modi tried to accommodate representatives of most castes in his Council of Ministers but upper castes got a dominant presence, bagging 32 of the 58 berths. Ministers from Other Backward Classes, a crucial political constituency, numbered 13.

Nine Brahmin leaders have found place in the Union cabinet, including Nitin Gadkari. Three Thakur leaders also made it, including Rajnath Singh, Jodhpur MP Gajendra Singh Thakur and Morena MP Narendra Singh Tomar. Dharmendra Pradhan remains a prominent OBC face in the cabinet, besides Modi himself.

Of the 58 MPs sworn in as ministers, six belonged to the Scheduled Castes and four to the Scheduled Tribes, mostly from Odisha and Jharkhand. Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal and BJP’s Hardeep Puri were the two Sikhs while Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was the lone Muslim to take oath.

Caste-balance continues to play a key role even as BJP maintains that the verdict of the Lok Sabha polls showed blurring of caste as a factor in voting, even in the Hindi heartland states of UP and Bihar.

Presence of nine Brahmin leaders with Cabinet rank is being seen as a strong message to the community, which has strongly supported the party despite perceived reservations against appointment of Yogi Adityanath as UP CM. BJP’s UP unit president Mahendra Nath Pandey has been inducted as a cabinet minister, apparently to assuage the community.

Arjun Munda’s entry as cabinet minister is yet another signal to the tribal community in Jharkhand, which goes to polls later this year. Incumbent CM in the state Raghubar Das is a non-tribal, but the party won several tribal-dominated constituencies including Dumka, where its candidate defeated JMM patriarch Shibu Soren.

As in 2019, May

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi

The complete list

PMIndia

Prime Minister
Shri Narendra Modi		Prime Minister and also in-charge of:Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;Department of Atomic Energy;Department of Space;All important policy issues; andAll other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.
Cabinet Ministers
1	Shri Raj Nath Singh	Minister of Defence
2	Shri Amit Shah	Minister of Home Affairs
3	Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways andMinister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
4	Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
5	Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Finance andMinister of Corporate Affairs.
6	Shri Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare;Minister of Rural Development;Minister of Panchayati Raj; andMinister of Food Processing Industries.
7	Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad	Minister of Law and Justice;Minister of Communications; andMinister of Electronics and Information Technology.
8	Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
9	Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs.
10	Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’	Minister of Education.
11	Shri Arjun Munda	Minister of Tribal Affairs.
12	Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Women and Child Development; andMinister of Textiles.
13	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	Minister of Health and Family Welfare;Minister of Science and Technology; andMinister of Earth Sciences.
14	Shri Prakash Javadekar	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change;Minister of Information and Broadcasting; andMinister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise.
15	Shri Piyush Goyal	Minister of Railways;Minister of Commerce and Industry; andMinister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
16	Shri Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; andMinister of Steel.
17	Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minister of Minority Affairs.
18	Shri Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs;Minister of Coal andMinister of Mines.
19	Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey	Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
20	Shri Giriraj Singh	Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandryand Dairying.
21	Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Jal Shakti.
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
1	Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
2	Rao Inderjit Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation andMinister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning.
3	Shri Shripad Yesso Naik	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) andMinister of State in the Ministry of Defence.
4	Dr. Jitendra Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region;Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office;Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy andMinister of State in the Department of Space.
5	Shri Kiren Rijiju	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports andMinister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
6	Shri Prahalad Singh Patel	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture andMinister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism.
7	Shri Raj Kumar Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power;Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy andMinister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
8	Shri Hardeep Singh Puri	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs;Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation andMinister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
9	Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Shipping andMinister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Ministers of State
1	Shri Faggansingh Kulaste	Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel.
2	Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
3	Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs andMinister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
4	General (Retd.) V. K. Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
5	Shri Krishan Pal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
6	Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
7	Shri G. Kishan Reddy	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
8	Shri Parshottam Rupala	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
9	Shri Ramdas Athawale	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
10	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development.
11	Shri Babul Supriyo	Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
12	Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
13	Shri Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao	Minister of State in the Ministry of Education;Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications andMinister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
14	Shri Anurag Singh Thakur	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance andMinister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
15	Shri Nityanand Rai	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
16	Shri Rattan Lal Kataria	Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti andMinister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
17	Shri V. Muraleedharan	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs andMinister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
18	Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
19	Shri Som Parkash	Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
20	Shri Rameswar Teli	Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
21	Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi	Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises andMinister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.
22	Shri Kailash Choudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
23	Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri	Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

See also

Union Cabinets/ Council of Ministers, India (historical)

Union Cabinet/ Council of Ministers, India (2014-19)

Union Cabinet/ Council of Ministers, India (2019-24)